Changes

It's been a little while since my last entry. Well, it's been a big while since my last entry. Like a whole different life ago at this point. I could try to catch, up, maybe I'll do a highlights post (for my own ocd sanity!) but for now, I think I'd better just go on from where we are.

So where are we? Well, for the next three months we are in Folsom living in temporary housing provided by Aerojet (aka a pretty small, but hey it's free so whose complaining, apartment). We haven't lived in an apartment since right after college, and it's not as glamorous as Curious George makes it look on t.v. Especially when you happen to get the apartment right underneath the magical one where people turn into elephants upon entry. Really. Good thing Helaman figured out what was going on, because we were really befuddled by all the noise before he figured out the elephant scenario. Now it makes perfect sense.

But I digress and get ahead of myself at the same time. Let me back up. Why are we where we are?

A couple of months ago Omar applied for a job at Aerojet here in the Sacramento area. He had worked here before going to China Lake, and just happened to look late one night and saw and opening. We didn't hear anything for months, and had forgotten the whole thing when they called with an offer that was too good to resist. Well, actually, we decided to resist and then when we prayed about it the Good Lord once again got the pleasure of telling the two of us (who truly think we are smarter than anyone else in the world) that it was a nice try but we had chosen wrong once more. So Omar took the job and was given a start date that was two weeks away! He barely had time to give notice at China Lake before he was off.

The boys and I stayed behind and let Helaman finish the last week of school before vacation and then came and stayed with Omar and his mom's house in Gridley for a little more than a week. Then Omar came back to Ridgecrest with us for a few days during Aerojets year end shut down. And then he was gone again. The plan was that the boys and I would stay in Ridgecrest and wait for the house to sell, but having our family split up just never felt right. We having wonderful families who offered to let us stay with them, and we were so grateful for the offer, but decided we needed to have our own family together. So we moved into temporary housing for three months here in Folsom.

We'll be here for three months, and then? Well, that's our life lately, not quite sure what is coming next. But we have faith that as long as we keep praying and following His counsel we'll be okay and in the right place wherever that is whenever that is. Our house is still for sale in Ridgecrest, most of our stuff in storage, and we are settling happily (most of the time) into a smaller simpler life for now.

Although we definitely miss our friends, and our ward, and our house.

Speaking of houses, anybody need a house?